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The Nation Press Club Luncheon on Monday was with Harvey Levin. Don’t know who he is? Here’s his bona fides from the Press Clud website:

Harvey Levin , creator of celebrity news site TMZ.com, discussed the changing landscape in entertainment news coverage at the National Press Club. Levin worked as a legal and entertainment reporter for several years prior to founding TMZ.

“What is the magic of holding a piece of paper in the air when you read it”? (Try it sometime, Harv).

“What is it that drives professors and others to sing the praises of newspapers still when it’s not the future? (Probably not, but give credit where it’s due).

“Yet there is something about newspapers, this holy grail that people talk about that we just have to preserve this. Why? What is it about paper, it’s not even politically correct anymore. What is it about paper that makes us so rooted in the past? And what is it that forces people to shut down when we talk about how to evolve today?

He goes on to ask interesting questions and discusses TMZ’s policy of paying. You can watch the entire speech at this link.

The folks Occupying Boston are looking for funds to start The Occupy Boston Globe a real-live printed newspaper!

Here are the details:

The Occupy Boston Globe will come in two forms:

1) A daily, double sided paper, distributed mainly within and around the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square

2) A weekly, full-color broadsheet in both English and Spanish, distributed across the Boston area (and nationally, to those who lend their support!)

This paper will enable us to reach more of the 99%, particularly those who don’t have daily access to an internet connection. It will be run as a community paperwith a transparent editorial and accounting process for all those who want to make sure we remain faithful to the ideals of the Occupy movement. Anyone will be allowed to submit news articles to our staff, and we will also allow for a small number of opinions and editorials to be published weekly.

We have a great staff of volunteers writing, editing, and designing what the first paper will look like. Unfortunately for us, however, the cost of materials, printing, and distribution can be prohibitively expensive to a fledgling newspaper. We are asking for your help in covering these costs, and only these costs. Any money spent on the paper will be transparently reported on occupybostonglobe.com once the Kickstarter funding period has ended.

I sell the morning papers sir my name is Jimmy Brown Everybody knows that I’m the newsboy of the town You can hear me yellin’ Morning Star runnin’ along the street Got no hat upon my head no shoes upon my feet

Never mind sir how I look don’t look at me and frown Sell the morning papers sir my name is Jimmy Brown I’m awful cold and hungry sir my clothes is mighty thin Wander bout from place to place my daily bread to win

My father died a drunkard sir I’ve heard my mother say I am helpin’ mother sir as I journey on my way My mother always tells me sir I’ve nothing in the world to lose I’ll get a place in heaven sir to sell the Gospel News

Yup, you bet! The Occupy Wall Street crew has thier own newspaper. Qt least one edition came out with a broadsheet last week (I haven’t heard of it’s a daily or weekly) dubbed The Occupied Wall Street Journal.

Read all about it, as they used to say, here. Thanks to whomever posted it here.

Steve died off-cycle for most of the overseas newspapers, so I waited until today to grab P1s from my good friends over at the Newseum.

Not going to do a kudos and not-so-kudos on theses because well, who’s to account for non-American tastes.

However, I did see quite a few P1 designs that I really like, including the first screenshot of the Diario de Pernambuco. They let their designer go wild — using just the Apple logo with the simple line drawing of Steve’s iconic glasses. Simple. Very simple, yet anyone who’se seen Steve Jobs will recogzine them. Very good work!

Several papers went with the reading-the-story-on-an-iPad/iPhone theme, which is pretty cool but some executed better than others.

I’ve included the Bild’s front page, which is NSFW. Shame on them for running THE WORST photo of Steve that they could dig up. It’s not like we didn’t know that he was sick and dying. So much for giving the man a bit of dignity.